{"id":36815,"date":"2025-08-24T08:10:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T13:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36815"},"modified":"2025-08-25T09:28:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:28:57","slug":"gold-leafed-turd-lickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36815","title":{"rendered":"Gold leafed turd lickers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36809\">Last post<\/a> c squared<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36849\">Next post<\/a> Church and Secular Gospel Music<\/p>\n<p>I will finish the previous post after church. I am jumping to this post because our Political Pope is attempting to put all of literate America under house arrest.<\/p>\n<p>First to clarify the title. I will only tire of belittling Donald Trump when his diapers are being changed in a memory care unit while his children divide his mafia inspired financial empire. They and his followers like our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/opinion\/columns\/local-view-what-would-pope-leo-say-to-rep-pete-stauber\">Congressman Pete Stauber<\/a> are the turd lickers who must lick carefully so as not to break the wafer thin coating of gold that encrusts him.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll start with this painting and tie it to Trump&#8217;s lust for a Nobel Peace Prize which is offended and demands the painting&#8217;s removal from the Smithsonian.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/2477x2910+0+0\/resize\/900\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F65%2F4f%2F71a0629d42c38abf6f007db187a6%2Fgonzalez-painting-hig-res.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t read the NPR story, at least not as of this posting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/08\/24\/nx-s1-5511241\/smithsonian-white-house-art\">It&#8217;s here and its a five minute listen.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s one more story that reminds me of the early years of Trump&#8217;s contempt for black people and his following his father into the world of racist, red lined, real estate.<\/p>\n<p>This is<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/20\/books\/review\/born-in-flames-bench-ansfield.html\"> a NY Times book review<\/a> hiding behind their paywall. Again I haven&#8217;t read it but I remember this subject being in the news from my early college days. Here&#8217;s the intro to the book and a period photo that may be in the book:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;When the Bronx Burned, Tenants Died and Landlords Got Rich <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBorn in Flames,\u201d by the historian Bench Ansfield, recounts how the wave of urban arson in the 1970s devastated poor communities while enriching building owners.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"blob:https:\/\/mail3.spectrum.net\/8f5d422c-b864-4c3c-9d04-02de10b648cd\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54741644485_5f59a8b8e7_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And while we&#8217;re at it lets censure this photo of the &#8220;woke&#8221; past.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/54\/Lange-MigrantMother02.jpg\/500px-Lange-MigrantMother02.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nI copied this from Wikipedia <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Migrant_Mother\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Since Wikipedia began right wingnuts decried its serious history as liberal when for the most part people in the hundreds of thousands who love and tend to the truth were laboring together to create a world encyclopedia that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Denis_Diderot\">Diderot<\/a> could only dream of. I often consult the French language Wikipedia to practice reading. Many other versions in other languages exist and grow and face censure by Trump-friendly dictators. <\/p>\n<p>People who ripped off the word &#8220;conservative&#8221; to give themselves unearned legitimacy and cover for their Jesus-betraying transgressions tried to create a Wikipedia rival. A septic tank of fury their &#8220;Conservapedia&#8221; is a long list of talking points by Jesus beatitude betrayers. Once a lost cause President Trump is doing his best to turn the US Government into an alternative &#8220;conservative&#8221; universe as Americas Censor-in-Chief. <\/p>\n<p>Wikipedians have <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conservapedia\">devoted a page describing their puny rival. This is its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservapedia.com\/Main_Page\">main page<\/a> which the Trump Administration has embraced as they fore scientists, teachers, environmentalists and other experts in an attempt to reduce the US Government&#8217;s brains to a reptilian limbic system. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last post c squared Next post Church and Secular Gospel Music I will finish the previous post after church. 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